There's another reason for the Fem! tag...
Harry Potter Fiction: for some inexplicable reason, the first American editions of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's/Philosopher's Stone excised a comment on the ethnicity and gender of Blaise Zabini {a boy of African descent} during the Sorting.
Due to this ambiguity, and the rarity of the name Blaise for Boys in the US, there is a lot of Fem!Blaise fanfiction which has Miss Zabini as an attractive Caucasian girl.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Harry Potter Fiction: for some inexplicable reason, the first American editions of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's/Philosopher's Stone excised a comment on the ethnicity and gender of Blaise Zabini {a boy of African descent} during the Sorting.
Due to this ambiguity, and the rarity of the name Blaise for Boys in the US, there is a lot of Fem!Blaise fanfiction which has Miss Zabini as an attractive Caucasian girl.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll